The Senate Week

Work Done. Last week the U. S. Senate:

P: Debated the Tariff Bill; adopted (47 to 42) the Simmons Amendment repealing the flexible tariff provision: adopted provisions to convert present ad valorem rates to equivalent percentages on the basis of "domestic value."

P: Heard Senator King eulogize late, great Dr. Gustav Stresemann (see p. 28).

P: Recessed for five minutes to receive Sergeant Alvin York, War hero.

P: Adopted a resolution commissioning the Department of Commerce to investigate the investment abroad of U. S. manufacturing capital for the production of commodities which compete which U. S. products in home and foreign markets.

P: Listened to a speech by James Ramsay MacDonald (see p. 27).